Asking Alexandria, courtesy: Sanjay Parikh. With the return of original vocalist Danny Worsnop, English melodic metalcore luminaries Asking Alexandria are touring their momentous self-titled comeback album. The reformed lineup is set to prove its long-lasting status within rock and metal music, and its connection to the Bay Area carries some personal weight.…

Though Matt Scottoline had already made a name for himself within the emo revival movement as the bassist in Everyone Everywhere, his has become the classic tale of a solo project becoming an actual band. Hurry’s current incarnation consists of drummer Rob DeCarolis and bassist Joe DeCarolis—cousins respectively known…

Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms such as Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time to sort through all that? RIFF does! We pooled our resources to find some of the best…

Spurred by the success of their initial collaboration back in 2016 and their 2017 rendition of Steve Riche’s “Music for Pieces of Wood,” Minneapolis indietronica experimenters Poliça and Berlin contemporary ensemble Stargaze have furthered their joint efforts. As both groups discovered how naturally their respective approaches could synthesize, the resulting…

Recreating the excitement of live performances on record can pay off tremendously, but switching focus to the meticulous studio process after the fact can become challenging. English noisy psych-rockers Hookworms, after proving their worth in the former regard with their previous releases, now seek to concentrate on filtering past their brazen exterior…

Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms such as Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time to sort through all that? RIFF does! We pooled our resources to find some…

Dream Wife, self-titled. The countercultural, nonconformist, confrontational nature of punk reaches far beyond three-chord riffs—a reality foundational to the cleverly named Icelandic-British trio Dream Wife. Finding its main influences in Madonna and David Bowie, two legendary examples of punk manifesting far outside its stereotype, these three are set to carry the…

Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms such as Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time to sort through all that? RIFF does! We pooled our resources to find some of the best…

White Reaper, courtesy. Rock has become increasingly removed from its over-the-top grandiosity roots. Following the inglorious fall of hair metal and the rise of grunge and alt-rock, which capitalized on a lack of stage presence as a stage presence in of itself, the indie rock explosion in the 2000s took the genre even…

There’s no point in denying it: Rock music has been usurped. While the reasons for this are tenfold, the lack of overt originality within the scene has remained a detractor from the style’s ongoing relevance within popular culture—especially in contrast to all the boundary-pushing within the hip-hop community. Indeed,…